SOME 410,000 public school teachers and other employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) are expected to finally receive their performance-based bonus (PBB) soon.
DepEd said Wednesday that on July 12, it submitted the first batch of validated reports required for the release of the PBB.
Consisting of 145 out of 191 divisions (75.92 percent), the first batch covers 29,284 schools with 409,725 eligible employees (teachers, non-teaching, and teaching-related personnel), it said.
"The Inter-Agency Task Force will take around a week to process the documents, after which the bonuses would be downloaded to the Regional or Division offices," the department said.
The second batch of reports is expected to be completed and submitted to the Task Force soon, it added.
Bonuses range from P5,000 (satisfactory) to P35,000 (exceptional).
DepEd employees who are recipients of national awards such as Literacy Awards and national awards from the Civil Service Commission and Metrobank Foundation in FY 2012 are already guaranteed beneficiaries of the maximum amount of P35,000.
Based on Executive Order 80, s. 2012, the PBB is a scheme that intends to reward government employees based on their performance and promote greater accountability in the public sector. (SDR/Sunnex)